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Opportunity Faces Slow Going Due To Communication IssuesPasadena CA (JPL) Jun 15, 2012 Opportunity has been investigating light-toned veins around the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. Recently, things became complicated, first by Mars Odyssey orbiter going into safe mode, leaving Opportunity without timely relay support, and then by a missed Ultra High Frequency (UHF) relay pass with Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on Sol 2976 (June 7, 2012). The project responded to the missed UHF pass by sending real-time commands to the rover on Sol 2977 (June 8, 2012), to ... read more |
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 Test of Spare Wheel Puts Odyssey on Path to Recovery In a step toward returning NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter to full service, mission controllers have tested a spare reaction wheel on the spacecraft for potential use with two other reaction wheels in a ... more | .. |
 NASA Mars Rover Team Aims for Landing Closer to Prime Science Site NASA has narrowed the target for its most advanced Mars rover, Curiosity, which will land on the Red Planet in August. The car-sized rover will arrive closer to its ultimate destination for science ... more | .. |
 Impact atlas catalogs over 635,000 Martian craters It's no secret that Mars is a beaten and battered planet - astronomers have been peering for centuries at the violent impact craters created by cosmic buckshot pounding its surface over billions of ... more | .. |
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 e2v imaging sensors launched into space on NASA mission to Mars On Saturday 26th November, e2v high performance imaging sensors were launched into space onboard an Atlas V rocket as part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, which plans to land a rover name ... more | .. |
  CU-Boulder-led team finds microbes in extreme environment on South American volcanoes A team led by the University of Colorado Boulder looking for organisms that eke out a living in some of the most inhospitable soils on Earth has found a hardy few. A new DNA analysis of rocky soils ... more | .. |
Odyssey Orbiter Puts Itself into Standby Safe Mode NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter put itself into a precautionary standby status early Friday, June 8, Universal Time (Thursday evening, Pacific Time), when the spacecraft detected unexpected characterist ... more | .. |
 Robotic Arm Gets to Work on Veins of Gypsum Opportunity is investigating light-toned veins around the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. On Sol 2969 (May 31, 2012), the rover drove 36 feet (11 meters) to the northeas ... more |
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 Russia May Join Mars Orbiter Project in Nov. - ESA Russian space agency Roscosmos and the European Space Agency (ESA) could sign a final agreement on Russia's participation in a Mars research project in November, ESA spokesman Rene Pischel said on F ... more | .. |
 NASA's Mars rover zeroes in on August landing NASA's Mars rover, nicknamed Curiosity, is zeroing in on its August landing on the Red Planet and aims to touch down closer than expected to its mountain target, the US space agency said Monday. ... more | .. |
 Rocket Sled Tests Are Technology Pathway to Safely Land Humans, Habitats and Cargo on Mars Traveling 300 million miles through deep space to reach the planet Mars is difficult; successfully landing there is even harder. The process of entering the Red Planet's atmosphere and slowing down ... more | .. |
 Mars crater shows evidence for climate evolution ESA's Mars Express has provided images of a remarkable crater on Mars that may show evidence that the planet underwent significant periodic fluctuations in its climate due to changes in its rotation ... more |
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 On The Hunt For Light-Toned Veins Of Gypsum Opportunity completed her in-situ (contact) investigation of a dust patch on the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover is now on the hunt for more light-toned veins of gyp ... more | .. |
 Wind may have driven avalanches on Martian dunes In the sand dunes in the north polar sand sea of Mars, sand avalanches that appear as wedge-shaped alcoves can be seen above fan-shaped deposits. The avalanches, which are typically several meters a ... more | .. |
 Mars missions may learn from meteor Down Under A discovery about the make-up of the atmosphere of Mars could help inform future missions searching for life there. Scientists have tried to find out how the planet's environment came to contain met ... more | .. |
 Waking Up with the Sun's Rays After moving from her winter perch, Opportunity drove to an undisturbed dusty patch to investigate the chemical origin of the ubiquitous Martian dust. On Sol 2957 (May 19, 2012), the rover use ... more |
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As world burns, India's Amitav Ghosh writes for the future
Fire on Ice: The Arctic's Changing Fire Regime
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 Opportunity Drives to Dusty Patch of Soil The rover drove on Sols 2949, 2951, 2953 and 2955 (May 10, 12, 14 and 17, 2012), totaling just over 46 feet (13.9 meters). The rover is positioning to reach a pristine patch of dust on the surface. ... more | .. |
 NASA Showered with Bold New Concepts for Mars Exploration NASA's call to scientists and engineers to help plan a new strategy to explore Mars has resulted in a flurry of unique and bold ideas, almost doubling the number of expected submissions. "This ... more | .. |
 Did Ancient Mars Have a Runaway Greenhouse? Cosmic impacts that once bombed Mars might have sent temperatures skyrocketing upward on the Red Planet in ancient times, enough to set warming of the surface on a runaway course, researchers say. A ... more | .. |
 NASA Funded Research Shows Existence of Reduced Carbon on Mars NASA-funded research on Mars meteorites that landed on Earth shows strong evidence that very large molecules containing carbon, which is a key ingredient for the building blocks of life, can origina ... more |
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 Dark Shadows on Mars Like a tourist waiting for just the right lighting to snap a favorite shot during a stay at the Grand Canyon, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has used a low sun angle for a memorable view ... more | .. |
 How To Keep A Mars Tumbleweed Rover Moving On Rocky Terrain New research from North Carolina State University shows that a wind-driven "tumbleweed" Mars rover would be capable of moving across rocky Martian terrain - findings that could also help the Nationa ... more | .. |
 NASA Goddard Delivers Magnetometers for NASA's Next Mission to Mars Magnetometers built by scientists and engineers at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. for NASA's Mars Atmosphere And Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) mission have been delivered to the Uni ... more | .. |
 To the Highlands of Mars Landing on Mars is never easy, as a record of failed missions has demonstrated. The gravity is fairly strong, but the atmosphere is thin. This pulls spacecraft in rapidly as they approach, but offer ... more |
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  JPL Invites all Earthlings to Annual Open House NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., invites the public to its annual Open House on Saturday, June 9, and Sunday, June 10, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The event, themed "Great Journeys," wi ... more | .. |
 WSU air-quality researcher to lead field studies in support of NASA Mars mission Rural Eastern Washington will become a testing ground in support of a mission to explore the Martian atmosphere for potential evidence of life under a recently funded NASA project developed by scien ... more | .. |
Mars Opportunity Rover Is A Go For More Travel After being stationary for 130 sols during the winter, Opportunity has resumed driving again. On Sol 2947 (May 8, 2012), the rover performed a 12-foot (3.7-meter) drive down from her winter pe ... more | .. |
 Opportunity Rolling Again After Fifth Mars Winter With its daily supply of solar energy increasing, NASA's durable Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has driven off the sunward-tilted outcrop, called Greeley Haven, where it worked during its fifth ... more |
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 Mojave Desert Tests Prepare for NASA Mars Roving Team members of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission took a test rover to Dumont Dunes in California's Mojave Desert this week to improve knowledge of the best way to operate a similar rover, Curi ... more | .. |
 NASA Spacecraft Detects Changes in Martian Sand Dunes NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed that movement in sand dune fields on the Red Planet occurs on a surprisingly large scale, about the same as in dune fields on Earth. This is unexpecte ... more | .. |
 Technology developed at Caltech measures Martian sand movement Last year, images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured sand dunes and ripples moving across the surface of Mars-observations that challenged previously held beliefs that there was not a ... more | .. |
 Prof Active In Mission To Determine Climate Change And Life On Mars NASA's top scientists - including a Texas A and M University researcher - hope to find out how Mars' climate has evolved over billions of years, and answers could come soon in the mission involving ... more |
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